WAGNER,S OFFSPRING.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 92, 21 April 1914, Page 5

WAGNER,S OFFSPRING.

A PECULIAR CLAIM

£Press Association.] (Received April 21, 0.'20 a.m.)

JiERLIN, April 20. ■Isokloj wife of Beidaer, conduci^r oi tl\e court opera _at Munich, Mas in&tfetuted a suit at Beyreuth agaiinst her mother, in oi'dei- to claim the Irifth.t to describe herself as nee "Wagiiev. Frau Cosima W-Jigner and lier son Siegfried contend "that Isolde was ,a--•^daughter of Cosxm^'s first husband, Hans Yon Buel&w.

The suit is based on the that while Frrfia Cosima's -five children were all lorn during the 'fir^t marriage', whicli finally was dissolved ] in 1870, Frati Cosim<a lived with Wagner as hfe wife as esirly as 1864. Isolde wias lyorn in 1865. She and the two . yoimgest children^—Siegfried and Eva, ivife of Hokfeton Stewart Chamberlain—Avero 'recognised 'Until 1912 as Wagner's legitimabised childi'^n